Outdoors · Washington

Washington, PA parks, trails & bike paths

About 20% of Washington is conserved land, roughly 3,977 acres. There are about 7.9 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Second Mountain Tract - Weiser State Forest (1.9 mi), State Game Lands Number 80 (0.9 mi), and Sweet Arrow Lake County Park (0.9 mi).

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Washington, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Washington outdoors

Conserved land
20%
3,977 of 19,773 acres
Trails
7.9 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
6
1,269 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 mi off-road paths

Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Second Mountain Tract - Weiser State Forest

Nature preserve
696 acres1.9 mi of trail
Second Mountain Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

State Game Lands Number 80

Managed by Pennsylvania Game Commission
2,274 acres0.9 mi of trail
Appalachian National Scenic Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Sweet Arrow Lake County Park

Park
10 acres0.9 mi of trail
Sweet Arrow Lake Lakefront Trail
Dogs on leashMapped in OpenStreetMap
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Weiser State Forest

Managed by Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry
696 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

3,977 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State fish & wildlife
2,377 ac
County
1,335 ac
State natural resources
966 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
203 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
123 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
107 ac
National Park Service
71 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 469 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Nearby

Washington and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Washington20.1%7.9 mi6
Bethel27.2%22.8 mi3
Reilly12.5%20.7 mi3
Pine Grove25.4%11.8 mi6
Wayne23.8%8.8 mi7
Tremont32.2%26.5 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Washington's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.

Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.

How we measure"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 23.3-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.

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